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Originally posted by kel
You can't compare the methods in the last two to the first one.
There is a couple orders of magnitude difference in computing power between the problems.
The first one could NOT (unless you have the secret to uber long living) have been solved by the technology available a few decades ago.
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Yes, but that still means that the problem has only been solvable because of technological progress, it has not, in itself, driven any kind of progress or discovery
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